601.486.78 Tokig Salad Spinner, White

The nearest ikea store to me is nearly three hours away. The gas alone would have made this salad spinner cost way more than I wanted to spend on one. This is a great price for this product as it is very sturdy and reliable. The handle is a spin handle rather than a push button one, which is great because those push button ones wear out and strip over time. This salad spinner can get pretty fast if your even mildly coordinated. Very easy to operate and clean. Shipped brand new in shrink wrap.

I was looking at a more expensive salad spinner with the pumping action rather than spinning action on top but my partner, who makes most of the salads, insisted that design always breaks and he preferred this design. I've always liked Ikea products for their simplicity of design and function and the price was significantly less than the pumping action one, so decided to order this one. My partner really likes the design of this salad spinner. He showed me how there is space between the inside basket where you put the greens and the bottom of the spinner bowl so there's a place for the water to go after spinning, rather than having the greens sitting in water. He also said it spins easily. The only complaint he had (which is why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5) was that it was smaller than we would have liked. It would be nice if the seller would say how many cups the basket inside holds and if they offered 2 sizes.

You might not know this...I bought this Ikea Tokig salad spinner to spin dry short hair wigs in. And it works beautifully. Have to tuck the hairs in the wig cap, yet the spinning gets quite a bit of the water out so there is no dripping when the wig is removed. I put one short hair wig in one way, spun it, and removed the lid and dumped the captured water, and then replaced the wig in a different way, and spun again. The second time has less resistance. Then I take the wig out of the basket, and it is damp but not dripping, and ready to fluff. Dumped the water, took apart the spinner and basket and lid so they can dry. I will use it for my Buffs and scarves, too. No twisting or rolling up in towels, which also have to be dried. I should have bought the deal with 2 for price of 1 and a half, but I wasn't sure it would work. It does, and I'd buy the deal for two because, well, one would be great for salad, too!

This simple to use and easy to clean little gadget is a winner. will hold one head of ice berg lettuce or 2 to 3 bunches of romaine lettuce. the simple spin handle mechanism makes it easy to operate and difficult to break. This is a winner both with price and quality. it will also be nice to use with berries and grapes.

I didn't expect anything fancy, just wanted to remove excess water from salads so I could prep a few salads for the next few days and store them in the fridge. First of all the construction of this product doesn't allow for removal of excess water because the plastic colander thing sits directly on the bowl that catches the water, so the salad at the bottom will always be soggy. The handle is incredibly hard to turn and I'm a fairly strong guy. If you turn it too vigorously it will make grinding noises until the handle pops off. I tried only filling it one-third full of salad and while it's easier to turn, the handle still pops off and it's unable to remove excess water. Lastly the top/lid is literally impossible to clean because its colander thing can't be removed and your brush/sponge/fingers won't reach inside. IKEA generally makes decent products for the price but this one is an abysmal fail. How this thing has so many positive reviews and has been sold for years is completely baffling.

I ordered this because all the ones in the store were too big and too costly. There's just the two of us most of the time and I did not want to spend a fortune. This is just the right size for a large salad for 2-3 people. It is a little smaller than what was available locally so it takes up less cabinet space. It is perfect for us and works well.

Who knew holes in the bottom bowl would be so important? I had an ancient blue salad spinner that finally gave up the ghost after 10+ years of service, so it was time to replace it. This had good customer ratings (I admit I'm beginning to put less importance on these, because it seems like more and more people must be being paid to write good reviews), the price was right and it wasn't huge, seemed perfect for my small kitchen. The biggest design flaw is that the outer clear bowl has no drainage holes, so for example when washing lettuce from the garden I have to stop, take it all apart, pour out the accumulated water, reassemble, spin again.....then repeat that process sometimes 4 or 5 times to get the lettuce as dry as I desire. It's cumbersome to do all that. If I had know that in advance I would have looked closer at the designs and purchased one with better drainage. Now, I'm not saying it doesn't work.....it just take a whole lot more work than it should be.

Let me start out by saying that I owned a salad spinner decades ago. Its handle broke shortly after I got it. I'm assuming that today's plastics are more durable than they were years ago. It's clear that the handle design of this spinner is better than the other spinner. I originally gave this spinner three stars, and then decided to raise it to four. In the beginning, I had trouble getting the top on and off, but I have since learned the knack. (You have to lift the top next to the handle to keep it from grabbing.) Also, it seemed to me that the spinner didn't hold a lot of water, but that hasn't proved to be a problem. (If you are spinning more than one batch of lettuce, you should pour the water out between spins.) For the relatively low price, this is a good product. I'm very pleased to have this spinner. It is so much easier than manually shaking each piece of lettuce over the sink. Let me say a little about cleaning vegetables. I read recently that it is more effective to hold vegetables under streaming water than to dunk them in water. But if you hold them under streaming water, you may miss some parts of the lettuce, and you'll waste a lot of water. So what I do is this: First, I found a large bowl that I didn't need for anything else. I fill the bowl, and then I submerge the lettuce and shake it to dislodge all the dirt. That seems to get the lettuce very clean. Cleaning vegetables is very important. Sometimes I'm amazed by how much brown silt accumulates at the bottom of the bowl. Of course, it's not possible to see how much pesticide comes off, but pesticide is more dangerous than silt, since it can cause neurological problems (people who live in rural areas get more Parkinson's disease, and that disease is a misery). When I was young, I'd often eat romaine lettuce without cleaning it. Now, I'm horrified that I ever did such a thing.